Lyudmila Putina
| Lyudmila Putina Людми́ла Пу́тина |
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| First Lady of the Russian Federation | |
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In office 7 May 2012 – 6 June 2013 |
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| President | Vladimir Putin |
| Preceded by | Svetlana Medvedeva |
| Succeeded by | Vacant |
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In office 7 May 2000 – 7 May 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Naina Yeltsina |
| Succeeded by | Svetlana Medvedeva |
| Second Lady of Russia | |
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In office 7 May 2008 – 7 May 2012 |
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| Prime Minister | Vladimir Putin |
| Preceded by | Zoya Zoubkova |
| Succeeded by | Svetlana Medvedeva |
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In office 16 August 1999 – 7 May 2000 |
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| Preceded by | Tamara Stepashina |
| Succeeded by | Irina Kasyanova |
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Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Shkrebneva 6 January 1958 Kaliningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Spouse(s) | Vladimir Putin (m. 1983–2014) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Leningrad State University |
| Religion | Russian Orthodox |
Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Putina (Russian: Людми́ла Алекса́ндровна Пу́тина, pronounced [lʲʊdˈmʲilə ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvnə ˈputʲɪnə], Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Putina, née Shkrebneva, Шкребнева; born 6 January 1958), now known as Lyudmila Ocheretnaya, is the former wife of the President and former Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
Putina was born in Kaliningrad, Soviet Union, the daughter of Alexander (his patronym is reported variously as either Abramovich or Avramovich) Shkrebnev (Александр Абрамович Шкребнев or Александр Аврамович Шкребнев) and Catherine Tikhonovna Shkrebneva (Екатерина Тихоновна Шкребнева). Her father worked at Kaliningrad Mechanical Plant.
She was educated as a linguist. In 1986, Putina graduated from the branch of Spanish language and philology of the Department of Philology of Leningrad State University.
In her early years she was a flight attendant for the Kaliningrad branch of Aeroflot. From 1990 to 1994 she taught German at the Department of Philology of Leningrad State University. For a few years until 1999 she was a Moscow representative of the JSC Telecominvest.
Putina maintained a low profile on the Russian political stage, generally avoiding the limelight except as required by protocol and restricting her public role to supportive statements about her husband.
Putin is a curator of a fund that aimed to develop the Russian language and sometimes produces statements concerning Russian language and education. Her preference for "maintaining and preserving" the Russian language has led her to make public statements against orthographic reform. The Russian Academy of Science sponsored a commission to study the orthography of the Russian language and propose changes. Their recommendations were made public in 2002 after eight years of work, but were subsequently shot down by Putina, who used Russia's burgeoning economy as one of her reasons why the orthographic reform was not just unnecessary but untimely. However, although one newspaper in Moscow alleged that "Lyudmila Putina de facto cancelled any attempts to reform spelling," the fact remains that public and academic reaction to the reforms were sufficiently negative to have that particular reform attempt abandoned.
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